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For Slavery and Union
Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for southern independence....
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
LEVIATHAN or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil-commonly referred to as Leviathan-is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of...
by Don J. Easterbrook
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Whatcom County in the Northwest corner of Washington State has a fascinating and elaborate geologic history. A Walk Through Geologic Time is a comprehensive guide to the geologic sculpting of this area's landscape. The book spans the history of the North Cascades and lowland from 1.8 billion years...
by Jack Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
It was an upset Pope Francis who called his cardinals and bishops naughty. At Christmastime 2014 and again in 2015 Pope Francis scolded the cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church for their vanity, hypocrisy, back-biting, gossiping, boasting, lusting for power and control, and acting like Lords...
by Charles W. Colson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
How should Christians live their faith in the public arena?Twenty years ago, the first edition of Chuck Colson’s Kingdoms in Conflict became a bestseller, a must-read for people interested in politics and the relationship between church and state. Now, with a passion for truth and moved by the urgency...
Render Unto Caesar
Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
“People who take God seriously will not remain silent about their faith. They will often disagree about doctrine or policy, but they won’t be quiet. They can’t be. They’ll act on what they believe, sometimes at the cost of their reputations and careers. Obviously the common good demands a...
Politics in the Pews
The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church."
---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations...
Let's Not Forget God
Freedom of Faith, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Born out of a speech celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, in which emperors Constantine I and Licinius granted Christians legal rights, this book by Cardinal Angelo Scola gives attention to the crisis of religious freedom in the twenty-first century. Let’s Not Forget God outlines...
Send Back the Money!'
The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
‘Send Back the Money!’ is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery campaign ‘Send back the Money!’ named after...
To Live Again
Archeology and History of the Robinson-West River Plantation 1857-2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The reader of this book will be taken on a fascinating journey from the earliest days of the historic Robinson plantation of 150 years ago, to its present day name of the West River Plantation. Carved out of the wilderness of east Texas , the estate rose to immense prosperity during the industrial...
Oklahoma
A Sense of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
To be sure, Oklahoma is a land of contrasts. Within the state one can find red necks and blue bloods, pickups and polo ponies, beer joints and country clubs, fiery preachers and pagans, rodeo and ballet. Oklahoma is the nation’s great mixing bowl.
Yet all too often even native-born Oklahomans...
A Nation of Religions
The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities--Muslims,...
by Aristotle Papanikolaou
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology...
The New Sectarianism
The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions. Yet, there is little understanding of who is driving this tension and the underlying causes. By delving deeply into the historical factors leading up to the present-day conflict, The New Sectarianism...